The sons of God present themselves before God

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The Holy Spirit enables us to understand the Bible

The Holy Spirit gives us faith in the Bible and an understanding of the Bible.

True spirituality is based on faith which is based on the Bible.

Spirituality enables one to understand the deeper Bible patterns.

JOHN 16:13   Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:

Spirituality is acknowledging a Higher Power.

We humans exist in order to find out why we exist.

Of ourselves, we cannot answer why we are briefly here on earth and what we should be doing.

Steve Jobs was the highly regarded and brilliant  Apple computers and iPhone CEO. He built up the Apple company into the world’s biggest company, in terms of money earned. His life was sadly cut short by cancer. All his money could not keep him out of the grave.

His closing words were that we are here to make a dent in eternity.

A better epitaph would be that we should ask eternity what part of the eternal Plan we can fulfill.

We should seek guidance from the Eternal One Who inhabits eternity, and He speaks to us through the written Bible.

Faith comes from understanding the Bible and discerning deeper spiritual patterns.

ROMANS 10:17   So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Sons of God had to appear three times a year before God

The three simple festivals for three essential harvests of barley, wheat, and grapes were going to develop into a much deeper spiritual pattern that tells us about Jesus, and the church, and the Jews.

JOB 1:6   Now there was a day when the

sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD,

and Satan came also among them.

How often did this happen?

After the Flood it was three times a year.

EXODUS 23:17   Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

The Jewish men had to appear before the Lord three times a year.

Who are the sons of God?

The sons of God were the children of Adam. But Adam was never called the father of all living.

Eve was punished for being pregnant, as she had a conception.

This had to be an unlawful pregnancy to warrant a punishment.

Adam was her lawful husband so he could not have been the father if Eve was being punished.

GENESIS 3:16  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception;

The mystery villain was the serpent, a big animal between man and the ape that could talk and reason and that looked just like a man. That is why his children could be giants.

God then cursed the serpent and turned him into a snake. But the serpent's firstborn, before he was cursed, was Cain and through Cain the spirit of the beast entered the human race. The sons and daughters of Cain were the sons and daughters of men.

GENESIS 6:4   There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God (descendants of Adam and Seth) came in unto the daughters of men (descendants of Cain), and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Human flesh was corrupted as the seed of the serpent intermingled with the children of God. But the corrupted humans were capable of great achievements.

Angels are never called the sons of God.

HEBREWS 1:5   For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?

There is no blood in Heaven. Thus angels have no blood and cannot have sex.
I CORINTHIANS 15:50   Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;

What made a person a son of God? The fact that a tiny portion of that person’s spirit was always inside the Spirit of God right at the beginning.

JOB 38:4   Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

:5   Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?

:6   Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;

:7   When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

The spirit of Job was a speck in the mind of God, but that speck somehow shouted for joy when God began to create the earth. Because Job then knew that his future home was coming into existence.

The sons of God have a little speck of God’s Spirit that reacts positively to anything that God does that affects their futures.

Job had no memory of that event. Just like you have no memory of being inside your father when he was a young man.

The sons of God were always a speck in the mind or Spirit of God, waiting to be brought forth on earth in their season. Having come from God, they were keen to diligently seek out God’s plan and purpose for their day, so that they could return to God and be a part of Him.

HEBREWS 7:9   And as I may so say, Levi also, who receiveth tithes, payed tithes in Abraham.

:10   For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him.

Levi, as a speck in his great grandfather Abraham, rejoiced as tithes were paid. So, God made him the receiver of tithes when he appeared on earth.

Humans are rewarded when they rejoice about God’s plan unfolding.

Despite the difficulties, sons of God rejoice when God’s Plan comes to pass in their day.

They want to belong to something that is bigger than themselves.

They want God to be in control, not man.

JOHN 1:12   But as many as received him,

to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

Those who were able to receive the little that God had revealed in their day were always regarded as the sons of God.

As time moved on, God revealed more and more of His truth and expected man to be able to believe more and more truth.

Before and immediately after the Flood, God revealed a little of Himself to individuals.

After that God used Abraham to start the Hebrew race, who we call the Jews today. Then God began to deal with a nation by using His Law.

After the death of Christ, God began to work through a born-again experience that enables an individual to find his or her place in the Word of God and in the Body of Christ, the true church.

Before the Flood life was easy but people became evil

Before the Flood life was easy but spiritually empty and mankind was wicked.

GENESIS 2:5   And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,

and there was not a man to till the ground.

Before the Flood life was very easy.

There was no rain, thus there was no cold winter. It takes hot and cold to produce rain. On a cold day get into your car and your hot breath hits the cold windscreen and moisture (tiny raindrops) develops. Life on earth stayed at a comfortable temperature. Huge animals like dinosaurs with long, narrow throats that had to eat all day in order to keep their bulk alive could survive. After the Flood, there would come a harsher environment in which creatures had to search for food. That killed off the dinosaurs.

Before the Flood man could plant at any time and reap the harvest a few months later. Then he could plant again and reap later again. There was no need to store up food to survive a cold winter as there was no winter.

It was so easy to make a living that man became incredibly corrupt.

When God made life easy for man, man enjoyed a comfortable life and turned away from God to pursue his own evil lusts. This is the curse of free will. Give a man a lot of free time and his behaviour easily degenerates.

Then God had enough of sin.

God wiped out sinful mankind, except for Noah’s family, and changed the rules.

Gone were the corrupt easy times.

Hardship would help to drive man back towards God.

When life became less easy, it also became less empty. Man improves when he has to struggle.

Struggle is the law of growth.

Man needed to be reminded that he is just a handful of dust with life blown into him by God’s grace.

Agriculture could teach that lesson. Plants absorb nutrients from the soil and give man food. The dust from the earth thus enters man’s body in order to maintain his body of dust. Take away the lowly plants and we die. Only plants can store up sunshine energy as food.

Only by carefully timed agriculture could man grow enough food to feed everyone after the Flood. A man had to learn when he had to plant the seed in order that he could harvest at the right time.

The New Testament of the apostles is the Seed of God

A key lesson that we must know is when was the seed of God's Word sown?

Was truth sown by the apostolic fathers when they wrote the New Testament?

Or was truth planted by the Roman Catholic "church fathers" with their Trinity doctrine at the Council of Nicaea in AD 325, together with all the modifications made by modern preachers as they try in vain to explain the Trinity that they cannot understand?

JOHN 12:24   Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

But the basic law of spiritual agriculture is that we cannot live for God unless we have first died to ourselves.

The laws of nature now also imposed a specific cycle on the farmers.

Farmers could no longer just do as they wished.

The planting and harvest had to happen at the correct time.

There was only one time when the truth was written down by the apostles. That only happened in the first church age.

The planted seed cannot change. The King James Version of the Bible must be the Absolute truth.

The churches would later foolishly refer to the Roman Catholic Bishops at the Council of Nicaea as being the authors of truth. The timing was all wrong. The Trinity God that they developed had no name as you cannot have one name for three Persons.  So, God lost His name. This is one consequence of trying to write the "truth" at the wrong time. They should have stayed with what the apostles wrote. The apostles wrote the New Testament when it was God’s time for planting truth and He never used the words Trinity, or Christmas, or Good Friday, etc. A seed cannot be planted twice. The apostle John completed the last Book of Revelation just before AD 100. Nobody after that could have a better truth.

There will be a certain (unknown) time when the Lord returns for the harvest of His Bride. We must learn from the truth of the apostles so that we can understand God's Plan for today. We must pull our mistakes out by the roots wherever we find that we believe something that is not written in the Bible.

First, the correct seed is planted by the apostles. The last event after the plant has grown will be the harvest. Harvest time is when the seed is pulled off the plant. The Bride will be pulled off the earth to meet the Lord in the air.

The first and the last represent Christ. You harvest the identical seed that you planted.

Thus the last church has to get back to the beliefs of the first church.

The seven-branched candlestick represents the 7 church ages. The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th candlesticks represent the truth getting lost. Th 4th church age was the Dark Ages where very little truth survived.

The 5th age was Martin Luther's Reformation which restored the truth that we are saved by grace through faith.

The King James Bible was translated and checked and upgraded for about 160 years.

The 6th church age restored holiness and produced the great missionary age.

The 7th church age restored the Pentecostal gifts of the Spirit. Then William Branham of America revealed the hidden mysteries of Scripture to take the end time Bride back to the beliefs of the first church age. Only the middle candlestick is guaranteed because that is where Christ stood. We have to get back to those first age beliefs of the apostles.
REVELATION 1:13   And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

REVELATION 1:17   And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

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Christ is manifest in two ways

First, the perfect Man Who appeared about 2000 years ago. He died, was buried, and resurrected back to life before ascending up to Heaven. Like barley, He was tough enough to endure a viciously harsh and hostile environment. Barley matures faster than wheat. Wheat symbolizes the church.

The ministry of Christ is symbolized by the barley harvest.

Later comes the wheat harvest which represents the true church.

Secondly, Christ is manifest as the revealed Word of God in the church.

The New Testament was planted by the apostles and the revealed Truth died out after the Trinity entered the church at the Nicaean Council of AD 325 in the third church age. Then Truth was buried in the dirt and cold of the “winter” of the Dark Ages. The Reformation of Luther began to restore Bible truth and William Branham, by revealing six of the seven Seals in Revelation Chapter 6,  then did his best to get us to be able to reveal the Bible truths of the first church age for ourselves.

Do not be fooled that all seven Seals have been revealed.

63-0803   INFLUENCE

Great signs in the heaven above, Angels coming in constellation! And scientists looking off at it, predicted months before it happened. There it was. There it's in the magazine. Told months before it happened! Seven Angels come down, and said,

"The complete revelation of the six-seal mystery of God would be unfolded."

64-0719  THE  FEAST  OF  THE  TRUMPETS

The Seventh Seal hasn't opened yet, you know. That's His Coming.

The Seventh Seal reveals the Second Coming. We cannot know that before it happens.

So, the revealed Word from Scripture must be harvested at the end. Only the first church had the truth. We must not change what they believed. Then the Bride is caught up to Heaven in what is often called the rapture.

This is symbolized by the wheat harvest.

Finally, the third harvest is the summer harvest of the grapes.

MATTHEW 26:29   But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom.

The Bride drinks the fruit of the vine in Heaven at the Wedding Supper with Christ and after that in the Millennium, the Kingdom of the 1000 years of peace.

Wine symbolizes the stimulation of Revelation.

We will understand the Bible mysteries in great detail when the Seven Seals are actually opened in Heaven as we stand around the throne of God. Now, we just have a revelation of six Seals. The seventh Seal was revealed to be a total mystery.

God has to reveal the Seals before He can open them.

AMOS 3:7   Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

Great Tribulation will be happening on earth as the Seals open in Heaven. That is the only time that we will really understand the Scriptures that deal with the 3.5 years of great Tribulation. This deeper unfolding will continue on into the 1000-years-of-peace-Kingdom that Jesus establishes after Armageddon. We will no longer look through a glass darkly.

I CORINTHIANS 13:12   For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

The winepress of the wrath of God is the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

While the Wedding Supper is going on in Heaven, on earth the winepress of the wrath of God will be the 3.5 years of great Tribulation that ends in the bloodbath of Armageddon. Only the 144000 Jews will get saved in great Tribulation.

REVELATION 14:19   And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

:20   And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs [200 miles].

There are 8 furlongs to a mile.

New rules when God made the earth to get freezing cold

The last ice age occurred during the Flood as God moved the earth further from the sun into the intense cold of outer space. The hairy Siberian mammoth near the Beresovka River was deep-frozen in seconds leaving flowers in its mouth and stomach, that had no time to decay. The earth received cold zones of ice at the north and south poles. (These will melt in the scorching heat of great Tribulation when God moves the earth closer to the sun).

REVELATION 16:8   And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.

When the icepacks melt the sea will rise by about 70 metres, flooding the coastal cities. Ten percent of the world's land will probably end up underwater. Two-thirds of our largest cities are at some risk. This will cause much trouble as people have to migrate away from these cities.

Man lived easy and comfortably before the Flood and failed dismally in the spiritual realm.

God then demanded that the Jews follow Him. But even the Jews who had the Word of God eventually failed to believe.

So, after the death, burial, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus (the barley harvest) God would require that we Gentiles die to ourselves to be part of the wheat harvest.

This was represented in agriculture where a seed must first die before it germinates and grows into a new plant.

Agriculture became tougher. Farming was a struggle against weeds, insects, wild animals, and weather. Farmers had to plan for a cold winter. Food had to be harvested and stored up. A tough winter and a life-saving harvest in Spring and summer were the focus of farmers in the region of Israel.

After the Flood, for those people in the Middle East in the area of Israel,

there were three important harvest times. Barley, wheat, and grapes.

What the earth had produced would enable them to survive the next winter.

Symbolizing that the Bible has all the truth that we need to know to find out what God is doing in our day.

For these harvests, they needed to be grateful to God as He alone could bring forth food from the dust of the earth.

Suddenly a harsh Middle East Winter (symbolic of the Dark Ages) was going to be imposed upon the farmers. They needed to plant barley and wheat before Winter and then after Winter they would reap the barley harvest in Spring and the wheat a month later.

Harvest is the pulling off of the seed from the dead plant, symbolic of the Bride being pulled off the earth and taken up to meet the Lord in the air. Then the world goes into great Tribulation as Death takes his ride on the pale, corpse-coloured horse to kill one-quarter of humanity.

That means about 2 billion will be killed as our population is about 8 billion.

REVELATION 6:7   And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

:8   And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.

Barley and wheat were planted in Autumn around October. This represented planting the seeds of truth.

Barley, the tougher plant, represented Christ Who alone could endure the unimaginably harsh penalty needed to atone for sin.

Barley is tougher than wheat and matured faster and thus would be harvested first.

Christ’s body lay for 3 days in the grave. It seemed that no progress was being made. Then, suddenly, He arose as the first fruits of the resurrection and ascended up to Heaven on the Day of Ascension.

The barley harvest would start in April.

EXODUS 23:16   And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours,

which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

God wanted to celebrate the firstfruits of each of the three harvests because the first handful of grain to get ripe after it had been buried and died, represented Christ. The first Man to be resurrected in a glorified Body that would never die again.

I CORINTHIANS 15:20   But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.

:21     For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

:22     For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

:23     But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

DEUTERONOMY 14:23   And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil,

and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

Gather before the Lord in the place where His name is

That is why the name of God was eliminated by the Trinity doctrine.

People can no longer meet God and call Him by name in the churches.

Church-goers have been fooled into replacing the name of God with three titles, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. This leaves God nameless.

Trinity says the name of the Father is Jehovah. Jehovah is never mentioned in the New Testament.

The name of the Son is Jesus.

The Holy Spirit has no name in the Bible.

This makes two names for three People. Not very convincing.

Now, ask for one name of God. One name for all three Persons. There is none. The Triune God is nameless.

But God only meets us in the place where He has put His name. To do this, we must know the name of God.

Some words have changed their meaning.

Corn was the original name for barley and wheat.

After AD 1500 when maize was discovered in America, then corn became the common name for maize. Back in Bible days, “corn” actually meant barley and wheat.

Thus, “the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine” referred to all three harvests. Barley, wheat, and grapes.

Then oil is also mentioned, symbolizing the Holy Ghost. We can only find our place or position in the Word of God if we are guided and taught by the Holy Spirit. That is the only way to be a son of God.

ROMANS 8:14   For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

JOHN 16:13    Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:

Only the Holy Spirit can reveal the Way of interpreting the Truth from Scripture so that we can find enough Life to understand God’s Word and be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, instead of having to die in the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

JOHN 14:6   Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Protestants believe Catholic errors

The American beast in Revelation Chapter 13 has enough money, which is the lifeblood of any organization, to build up the false church structure.

Remember, it was Judas who was an apostle who betrayed Jesus. Thus, American money is funding the gathering together of the Protestant churches to form an image of the worldwide Roman Catholic church beast. The Protestant churches now believe in Trinity, Easter Monday, Good Friday, Easter eggs and Easter bunnies, Christmas, 25 December, one man is the head of a church, etc.

All these are unscriptural and were invented by the Roman Catholics. The daughter Protestant churches keep learning from the mother Roman Catholic church.

EZEKIEL 16:44   Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Christmas means Christ’s mass. Invented by Pope Julius I around AD 350.

So, Protestants who celebrate Christmas are celebrating a Roman mass. Despite their denials, they are actually closet Catholics. We were never asked to celebrate Christ’s birth.

REVELATION 13:15    And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.

In the 3.5 years of great Tribulation, if you do not believe in all these Catholic doctrines you will be killed. The saved Protestants in great Tribulation are the foolish or fooled virgins who did not have enough light to read and understand the Bible mysteries.

They never realized that their greatest danger was the errors within the church, not the enemies outside the church.

EXODUS 23:17   Three times in the year

all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.

The Jewish men had to appear before the Lord three times a year.

Where?

The door of the Tabernacle was where the Jews met God.

EXODUS 29:42   This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations

at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you,

to speak there unto thee.

The door of Moses’ tabernacle became the place where the Jews could meet “before the Lord” as God was dwelling between the cherubims on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant.

II KINGS 19:15   And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said,

O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims,

thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

The important point was that the Jews were not worshipping God in a way that suited them. They had to worship God in the place that God chose.

In other words, we worship God in vain unless we serve God in a Scriptural way.

Make sure that you obey God in all the Scriptures that refer to the end-time events.

DEUTERONOMY 16:6   But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in,

there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

3 main harvest festivals of barley and wheat and grapes

EXODUS 34:23   Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

EXODUS 34:24   For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land,

when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year

II CHRONICLES 8:13   Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts,

three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.

The first harvest was the tough barley for the feast of unleavened bread that lasted 7 days. This represented Christ's perfect life in His church during the seven church ages.

The barley harvest symbolized Christ, the wheat harvest symbolized the church, the grapes harvest symbolized the Jews.

They waited seven weeks or 49 days after the barley harvest. Then, on the next day, the "feast of weeks" was the wheat harvest on the Day of Pentecost. This represented the birth of the New Testament church after 50 days.

The third gathering was the feast of Tabernacles or the feast of booths.

This feast lasted 7 days and it happened in the 7^th month. An emphasis on 7.

This also meant that God would return to the Jews after the seven church ages are over.

DEUTERONOMY 16:13   Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:

In Genesis Chapter 1:1 God created the earth from nothing.

Then God spent six of His Days preparing the created earth to be a suitable home for human life.

Each of God’s Days was 1000 human years.

II PETER 3:8    But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The 7^th Day or 1000 years was meant to be for Adam as the son of God and his nameless bride who was just called woman as she was taken out of man. They were to rule on earth for 1000 years. But thanks to the Devil, they messed up.

Then Jesus redeemed a church Bride during 7 church ages. They too have no human name as they are just called Christians, who are taken out of the Spirit of Christ and His holy Word.

Today each church has a name, like Baptist or Methodist, but they have no name for God.

After the battle of Armageddon comes the Millennium or 1000 years of peace.

Jesus as the Son of God and His no-human-name Bride (they do not call themselves Catholics, Methodists, In-the-Message, etc) rule on earth for 1000 years to fulfill God’s original plan.

But in the Promised Land will be the Old Testament saints and the 144000 Jews from great Tribulation.

The Millennium will complete God’s original 7 Day Plan. So, the Old Testament Jews who resurrected after the resurrection of Jesus will be part of that 7^th Day, which also completes the original 7 Day Plan of God.

The Jews time ended at Calvary. They are not part of God's Plan for the Gentile church in the last 2oo0 years.

The Old Testament had 2000 years to the Flood and then 2000 years to Calvary. Then the Jews are left out but will reappear during the 1000 years of peace, called the Millennium. Only 144000 Jews will get saved in great Tribulation.

Thus, God wanted the Jews to dwell in booths that had nothing to do with their homes. This change from home-life to booth-life symbolized the change that the Old Testament Jews will undergo when they enter the Millennium which will be very different from their Old Testament ways.

These Jews will build their own houses for the 1000-year long Kingdom.

The Old Testament Jews have already received their immortal bodies and will not be subject to the Temple Law of the new Temple that Jesus builds for the Millennium. That will only apply to the heathen who never heard the Gospel and who were lucky enough to survive Armageddon. As well as the one-third of the Jews who survive the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

ZECHARIAH 13:8   And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD,

two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.

The feast of Tabernacles required booths made from branches.

LEVITICUS 23:40   And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook;

and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.

LEVITICUS 23:41   And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Seven days, The seventh month.

This emphasis on 7 in order to complete God’s original plan of a 7th Day.

LEVITICUS 23:42   Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths

This is the festival of booths. They will live in small, separate groups. Not one big group that is dominated by one man.

God was now going to choose a place to put His name in.

DEUTERONOMY 14:23   And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there,

the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.

God gets specific about the three times of gathering before the Lord. Two of these, the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of Tabernacles were week-long feasts.

EXODUS 34:18   The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days

thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

Abib is another name for the month of Nisan.

The feast of booths or tabernacles, made from branches or boughs, was also 7 days.

LEVITICUS 23:42   Ye shall dwell in booths seven days;

all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths

The wheat harvest was one day feast

The wheat harvest feast was one day long on the Day of Pentecost.

Pentecost was the middle feast, the wheat harvest feast. It was only for one day. Why?

The middle feast of Pentecost was a one-day feast on a Sunday, the day after the Saturday sabbath.

This celebrated the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on a Sunday that launched the New Testament church.

This one-day feast indicated that only the first church age had the full truth from the apostles.

REVELATION 1:13   And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man,

The first church age started with a blaze of apostolic truth that gave us the New Testament.

Then the church began to appoint human Bishops to run the church. The Bishops were forced to accept the false Trinity doctrine at the Nicaean Council of AD 325. The church drew away from the light of Scripture introducing the pagan 25 December as the so-called unscriptural Christmas around AD 350. We were never asked to celebrate the Lord’s birth.

The truth was finally lost in the cold and dirty Dark Ages.

The Reformation in the 5th church age saw a slow return to Bible truth and the final end of the seventh or last church age has to return to the teachings of the first church age as that is the only Pentecostal feast day that God appointed.

There was only a one-day feast for the wheat harvest representing the church.

Only the first church age, under the guidance of the apostles, got it right.

Brother Branham's ministry was to restore us back to the doctrines of the early apostles.

This is what God wanted.

The wise virgins are called the Bride at the end. Being wise, they are saved and have a good understanding of Bible mysteries.

The foolish virgins represent the church. They are saved but have little understanding of Bible mysteries.

But modern church pastors ignore or condemn brother Branham. Other human leaders choose to elevate William Branham from being the voice of the 7th angel who reveals the mysteries of Scripture to be the "infallible Voice of God" whose quotes replace Scripture. So the message-groups splintered into numerous variations of pastor-dominated interpretations of his quotes.

So this next picture is what the church world had given God. No chance of their churches being restored back to the beliefs of the first church age.

The rest of the “week” that represented the 7 church ages had 6 ages that were too brainwashed with church errors. Thus, God did not want a 7-day celebration. Only the first day, the early first church age that the apostles influenced, was worth celebrating.

One day, the first day of the week, was all the truth there was. That means very little of the 7th church age will actually return to the first church age truth.

There will not be enough truth believed by the church people in the 7^th church age to warrant a second day of feasting.

LUKE 18:8  Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?

The Temple in Jerusalem was the place God put name in

You must know the name of God.

But a Triune God of three Persons does not have a name.

The men of Israel had to appear three times.

DEUTERONOMY 16:16   Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD

thy God in the place which he shall choose;

in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles:

and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Where did God place His name?

DEUTERONOMY 16:6   But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in,

there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

II CHRONICLES 33:7   … In this house, and in Jerusalem,

which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel,

will I put my name for ever:

JOHN 2:19   Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.

God’s real Temple is Jesus Christ.

HEBREWS 1:3   Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,

Jesus Christ is exactly what God looks like when He comes on earth as a Man.

He died for us at Calvary. So that is where we meet God.

COLOSSIANS 2:9   For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.

All of God dwells in the Man Jesus.

Thus, Jesus Christ is the human name of God.

Only in the name of Jesus Christ can we come into the presence of God.

God only refers to three feasts for celebration

God’s next move is with the Jews to pull out the 144000 in the 3.5 years of great Tribulation.

That is why the Jews are moving back to Israel and why God got President Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This sets the scene for the return of Jesus to the Jews after the church has been caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

The three feasts are as follows.

The feast of unleavened bread.

Christ’s perfect life in the seven church ages.

The feast of weeks.

7 weeks plus one day, the Sunday after the Saturday Sabbath. This was the Day of Pentecost.

The emphasis is on one day.

The launching of the apostolic first church age which is the only age where the full truth was widely believed. The truth was lost and then partially regained during the church ages. In church age 7 the apostolic truth should finally have been restored, but very few would believe it. Very few even regard the King James Bible as the infallible and Absolute Voice of God. Message-believers have sadly changed William Branham from being the voice of the seventh angel to being the Voice of God. Changing Scripture brings death.

So, after catching up His church to meet Him in the air, God turns to the Jews.

The feast of Tabernacles symbolizes the Jews in the Millennium or thousand years of peace.

The killing of truth and the 3.5 years of great Tribulation are not celebrated.

The 7 Trumpets symbolize calling the Jews back to the Promised Land in great Tribulation. These events will be disasters that the Jews will not want to celebrate.

The Day of Atonement is when the 144000 Jews recognize Christ in great Tribulation. This will be a day of mourning and deep grief. Not a day of celebration.

Both these great Tribulation events will not be part of the feasts as great Tribulation is a night of darkness,  horror, and death that cannot be celebrated.

The Passover or day of Preparation is the day Christ died an agonizing death. The sun blacked out for 3 hours, darkness at midday. That is not part of the celebration.

The feast of the Passover started the next day, which is 6 o’clock in the evening, when they ate the roasted lamb. That day was also the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the first day of the 7 days of unleavened bread. The Feast of the Passover thus represented the first church age which is where mankind gained the benefits of the Lord’s painful and awful death. That first church age gained the New Testament from the apostles and became the only church age that had the full truth that spread around the world.

Christ is the Bread of Life. The unleavened bread symbolizing Christ’s perfect life in the church during the 7 church ages. That is the only reason that the church survived for 2000 years.

JOHN 6:35   And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life:

The feast of Tabernacles has the Jews as God’s main nation on earth for 1000 years of peace.

Now, that is worth celebrating.